Visigothic kings order Jews to convert or leave
c. 613 CENotable
King Sisebut orders the Jews of Visigothic Spain to accept baptism or leave. Later councils of Toledo repeat the bans, and in 694 King Egica decrees their enslavement and the seizure of their property.
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